FCTA promotes 3000 staff
The FCT administration has promoted over 3000 staff following the 2016 promotion and confirmation exercises it carried out recently.
In the exercise, 46 acting directors have been confirmed as substantive directors and deployed to various secretariats, departments and agencies (SDAs).
The Permanent Secretary, FCT Administration, Mr. Chinyeaka Ohaa, gave the breakdown while speaking to newsmen last week in Abuja on the measures approved by the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, to reposition the administration for greater productivity.
He stated, however that from January 1, 2018, all eligible officers for appointment into all grades of the directorate’s cadres would be subjected to written examinations as applicable in the Federal Civil Service.
Also, appointments, promotions and discipline of all staff under the FCT administration, including teachers, have been centralised in the FCT Department of Human Resources.
He said that would ensure a level playing field for career advancement for all staff of the administration and prevent so-called favoured ones rising above their peers.
Mr. Ohaa also revealed that some senior secondary schools have been delineated as Grade “A” schools, and would now be headed by principals of the equivalence of directors, on GL 17.
Consequently, 10 secondary schools have been so graded under the 2017 budget while a further 10 would be upgraded under the 2018 budget following the FCT minister’s approval.
Also announced was that Directors of Administration and Finance (DAFs) who acted as secretaries in the interval before the appointment of substantive secretaries have been reshuffled across various stations.
They include: Alice Odey-Achu (Mrs) who moved from Health and Human Services Secretariat (HHSS) to the Transportation Secretariat; Malam Ado Faskari now DAF for HHSS, while Justina Maimagani (Mrs), formerly of the Education Secretariat, has been moved to Health Management Board as its DAF.
Others affected by the movements include Hajiya Safiya Umar, formerly of Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC), now DAF for Legal Services Secretariat; Malam Abdulhamid Suleiman, from Transport Secretariat to AMMC, and Malam Musa Abdulraheem Anumah, who has been deployed to the Area Council Services Secretariat as DAF.
Other changes include Mrs. Eunice Ugochukwu, who is now DAF Education Secretariat; Malam Umar Marafa, Social Development Secretariat; and Dr. Lazarus Gaza, former Director, Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board, who has gone to Agriculture and Rural Development Secretariat.
Malam Baba Lawan, the former Director of Abuja Environment Protection Board (AEPB), who was redeployed to a Special Assignment, has been recalled to the board.
The directors of Common Services Departments were also confirmed but retained their locations.